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by bcjordan 15y ago
<conspiracytheory> http://paulgraham.com/ambitious.html was written before YC S11. </conspiracytheory>
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by bcjordan 15y ago
The folks at cloud9 IDE or Codecademy are in a good position to collect and expose patterns in programming efficiency. On one's own, simply using a VCS with a high enough commit frequency would let you infer something about lines added per
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Tiv - a simple image viewer that displays images directly in the terminal(xyne.archlinux.ca)
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Real-time smooth graphing in JS (open source)(smoothiecharts.org)
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You Are A Brain presentation (Map vs. Territory)(lesswrong.com)
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by bcjordan 15y ago
Looking in the source for the Slate article, secretly hoping the author might have put sort of comment in for developers, I came across this:
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GDC peeve of the year: Don't clone my indie game, bro(dmwmedia.com)
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For Creators of Games, a Faint Line on Cloning(nytimes.com)
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Random freewriting prompt from Accidental Genius(prompts.herokuapp.com)
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by bcjordan 15y ago
For a fun and gratifying first programming experience consider the visual programming environment Scratch: http://scratch.mit.edu/ I haven't found a more vibrant and impressive code-sharing community and it's a simple install. Python woul
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by bcjordan 15y ago
Great idea. I've done a few sessions of pair programming and giving my friends tutorials on web development over Google+ Hangouts the past couple of weeks, it works great.
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Thoughtbot's playbook(playbook.thoughtbot.com)
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by bcjordan 15y ago
> Though the administration's chief technology officials officials acknowledged the problem of online privacy Funny that this Freudian slip has shown up in more than one SOPA article.
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by bcjordan 15y ago
A nice solution to avoid namespace collisions while allowing users to create their own shortening URLs is to use their username as a subdomain (e.g., bcjordan.gethopper.com/meaningfulname). Also: * accept file and submissions by email: subj
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by bcjordan 15y ago
I could've sworn they said they would ignore negative customer feedback and spin off a company called "Qwikster".
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by bcjordan 15y ago
Your Bloomberg interview was the first time I'd seen or heard you speak publicly and you came across as likable and intelligent. Doing an interview about SOPA would be free and easy. But an essay would be better than a presidential-address-
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We Earth Neurons(ase.tufts.edu)
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by bcjordan 15y ago
I'm interested but no email in your profile. I'm (my username) at gmail. Curious, are there better sites for posting quick help requests like these?
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by bcjordan 15y ago
I used impact.js in a recent game jam, it makes building tile-based / platformer games a cinch. It lacks a few niceities (motion animation, canvas text), but those can be hacked in as necessary without too much pain. The documentation is be
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by bcjordan 15y ago
Loving the lot of javascript-backed in-browser programming tutorials launching lately. This one in particular has a nice UI and help overlay.
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by bcjordan 15y ago
Enjoyed reading through your project's commits -- thanks for sharing.
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Netflix VP of Engineering on designing a rating system(quora.com)
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by bcjordan 15y ago
The last video really illustrates the software's possibilities: http://vimeo.com/29540826
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by bcjordan 15y ago
I should note that Ward Cunningham developed the first wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ward_Cunningham I really enjoyed listening to his appearance on This Developer's Life: http://thisdeveloperslife.com/post/1-0-6-abstraction
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Ward Cunningham working on new wiki software (progress videos)(wardcunningham.github.com)
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Getting your Heroku Facebook app to work in Facebook's canvas(rogrammin.posterous.com)
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by bcjordan 15y ago
I'm really impressed by Selenium's breadth of language and platform support. The GUI editor and code generator was useful for getting started.
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Leaving work with a process in the foreground(rogrammin.posterous.com)
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The ICFP 2011 Functional Programming Contest is Lambda: The Gathering(icfpcontest.org)
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by bcjordan 18y ago
Plan 9 blew my mind as well. Everything's a file! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_9_from_Bell_Labs

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